Olympic Photodesk -- FIFA Congress; First London 2012 Test Events

(ATR) Around the Rings was on the scene as Sepp Blatter won a fourth four-year term as FIFA president at the 61st FIFA Congress in Zurich. More inside this edition of Olympic Photodesk.

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during the 61st FIFA Congress at Hallenstadion on June 1, 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland.
during the 61st FIFA Congress at Hallenstadion on June 1, 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland.

(ATR) Around the Ringswas on the scene asSepp Blatter won a fourth four-year term as FIFA president at the 61stFIFA Congress in Zurich.

Also inside, London 2012 stages a small-scale marathon as its first test event, rapper Dizzee Rascal teams up with Coca-Cola for the launch of its Future Flames campaign and Mitt Romney, former president of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee, announces a different kind of presidential bid.

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